In testimony by the outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon
Panetta in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Benghazi attack,
Americans finally heard information on our President’s level of command and
compassion for our diplomats and soldiers in jeopardy.
In a regular scheduled DOD meeting with the President that
lasted 30 minutes only 15 minutes was devoted to the crises unfolding in
Benghazi. Leon Panetta expressed to the President and defended the same
argument to the committee that there was nothing the military could do to aide
those in Benghazi.
The President reportedly told Panetta to do what could be
done and it was on to other routine business. According to Panetta there was no
follow up conversations with the President, no contact with the Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and the military never secured or put boots on the ground
in Benghazi to secure the compound because there was no request to do so.
The Obama administration has little shock value to those of
us that have been reading the fine print of his administration while ignoring
the mainstream media’s sound bite spin yet I admit to being stunned by the
cavalier posture of both the President and his top military commanders.
It was an “oh by the
way” discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting? It was only a 15 minute conversation? There
was no statement such as “Mobilize all the available military assets we have
and get to the Benghazi compound, I want planes in the air and boots on the
ground ASAP.” No follow up conversation with the President at all beyond a 15
minute conversation by the Secretary of Defense Panetta that nothing could be
done?
Panetta went on to testify that the military support in
incidences such as this one is not to be used as “the 911” to call for support?
What?
Okay now all Americans especially active military and
veterans should be apoplectic with disgust at the Commander and Chief and his
chief minister of defense of no defense. Obama’s cold distant and complete lack
of engagement reaction is beyond digestion. Travon Martin received more
attention by our President than Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyron Woods, Glen A.
Doherty and Sean Smith.
It is more than disheartening to know that our government
watched these men undergo an assault through the use of a drone video and did
not even try to move assets into place to help these men. There is no past
President that I can imagine regardless of being a Republican or Democrat that
would not have tried to move heaven and earth to at least try and save these
men.
In fact Americans would be able to feel at least rested of
unease had we mobilized the assets even if they were too late to save lives but
showed our military presence in Benghazi out of respect of our men, to the
military and to the Libyans, and to the world.
Instead, the President did nothing but head off to campaign
to remain Commander in Chief for another term.
Instead, the President lied to the American people that the
Benghazi attack was unclear as to being caused by a protest over a video or a
planned act of terrorism.
Instead the President continued to claim on the campaign
stump that by his killing of Ben Laden “Al Qaida was decimated”.
Instead the President sent out Susan Rice Ambassador to the
United Nations to puppet a myth that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous
uprising over protests of an anti-Islamic YouTube video.
Instead, the President lied behind the skirt of Candy
Crowley in the presidential debate with Romney that he had called the Benghazi
attack terrorism at the Rose Garden.
Instead, of taking responsibility his Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton stepped up to take responsibility however, in the new
definition of responsibility in the Obama administration that means no blame,
no fault, no mistakes, no regrets, no shame and absolutely no adverse
consequences such as losing their job.
Instead, of full disclosure to the families of the victims
and the American public regarding all the continuing unanswered questions about
Benghazi such as where are the victims that were saved by the brave soldiers
who died that day, and who changed the “talking points” to claim it was a
spontaneous uprising based on a video, we are still left with a silent and
empty Executive Branch chair.
Cold as ice is not strong enough to describe a President
that did not give a second thought (no follow up) to our Ambassador and the
brave men that fought to their deaths for America and Americans.
Even liquid nitrogen is warmer than the heartless space and void
chest cavity that characterizes this President’s actions and in-actions making
the Grinch even on his most callous of days seem more caring than our Commander
in Chief. 
Americans should demand a non-partisan investigation because
we have an administration covering up for the White House that did not provide
cover for our diplomatic personnel. The more information that is exposed
exposes a dangerously disengaged American government bureaucracy that has no accountability,
credibility or soul.
